Improvement in paper bed-bottoms



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JAMns B.t GRA-NE, or DALTON, nassAcI-iusnrais.

Letters Patent No. 110,958, datealanuary 1 7, 1871.

IMPROVEMENT IN PAPER BED-BOTTOMS,

The Schedule rellen-edto in theselLetterB Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may concern.-l

Be it known that I, JAMES B. CRANE, of Dalton, in the county of Berkshire and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Paper' Bed-Bottom; and Ldo hereby declare that -the following is a full, clear, and exact description corresponding It consists in the-paper bed-bottom constructed as hereinafter more fully described.

l A is a frame, consisting'of two side bars connected at their ends by two end bars,and which is made of such-a size as to lit into the bedstead and restupon cleats or other supports attached to therails ofthe bedstead.

B is a sheet of paper of such a` hreadthas to'extend or nearly extend from one side bar of' the frame A to the other.

One end of' the paper B is attached to the under sideof one of the end bars of the 4frame A aud is then passed around the frame A, and its other end is attached tothe same end bar as the first end of said paper. l The paper B is passed -around the frame A while wet, and shrinks toits place as it dries, so as tol have the nccessarytension when dry. Y

The paper B may be made in sheets'or in strips of any desired breadth, the form of the paper being immaterial, and it may'be attached to its frame in, any desired manner; hut I prefer to 'attach it when'wet,

v audallow it to shrink to its place asit dries.Y

By this construction is -produced a neat, clean,

' strong, durable, and comfortable bedbottom.

Having thus described my invetion, 5

I claim vas new an'd desiretc secure by LettersI Patent'.- i

1 4An improved hed-bottom, -formed by passing paper in sheets or strips around a frame, A, when we t, and Vallowingr it to shrink toits place as it dries, substantially as' herein' shown and described, andfor the purpose setforth.

2. 'lhe application of paper to a lbundatjon irame 01 bedstead, to form a bed-bottom, however said paper may be applied.

The above specification of my invention me this 2dday of December, 1870.

JAMES B. CRANE.

signed hy Witnesses J AMES T. GRAHAM, T. B. Mosman. 

